Amy Poehler Quotes

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

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• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hard Work

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • World
  • Law
  • Eyes

• The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Much
  • Monsters

• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Death

• I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved.

  

  Khalid
  • Life
  • Music
  • Confused

• i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

  

  Melissa George
  • Sometimes
  • Female
  • Lead

• It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Art

• Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Pain

• You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Pain
  • Ways
  • Specific